COMMENTARY: “I’ve been consumed with noise-making guilt, even as a child: Whenever the phone rang when I practiced piano as a kid, I imagined it was a neighbor, calling to beg me to stop,' writes joannaweiss.
I’ve seen a barking dog cause a neighborhood feud. I’ve known people who wouldn’t venture into their own backyard because they couldn’t stand the sounds from the pool across the fence. I’ve been consumed with noise-making guilt, even as a child: Whenever the phone rang when I practiced piano as a kid, I imagined it was a neighbor, calling to beg me to stop.
And so, in summer mornings, I rush out to the coop and let the chickens out before they wake the street.Not all noise pollution is equal — and this often has less to do with the sound than the cause. Some animals are native; some are introduced, and in a sense, man-made. Massachusetts seems especially sensitive to man-made noise, which can be a wonderful thing. The mid-Atlantic beaches near where I grew up were marked by wall-to-wall towels and competing boom boxes.
Still, I declined to turn around — maybe because I’m wimpy and conflict-averse, or maybe because I had made my own down payment on noise pollution. There have been times when I’ve been the one with the loud kid in the restaurant, absorbing the dirty looks as I tried to make my exit. And sometimes, there’s no escape: On a plane, my son once howled when I shut off the laptop for landing. “Are his ears popping?” a kindly flight attendant asked. “Oh, yes, that’s it,” I lied.
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